Officers shoot teen driver after chase near Murphy

Sheriff says boy who rammed patrol cruiser with truck did not have driver's license

9:47 PM,
Mar. 24, 2014

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Officers with the police department and Cherokee County Sheriff's Office shot and wounded a teenage boy after a vehicle chase early Sunday.

The injured boy suffered a gunshot wound to the leg and was flown by helicopter to Mission Hospital, Sheriff Keith Lovin said in a news release Monday. They boy's name and age were not released because he is a juvenile. Lovin said the boy did not have a driver's license.

The chase began at 3:45 a.m., when a sheriff's deputy saw a pickup truck traveling erratically near the intersection of Hiwassee Street and Martins Creek Road, Lovin said. When the deputy ...